HUNTSVILLE, AL -- The nonprofit HEALS Inc. will put a new twist on the old-fashioned barn raising this weekend.

As part of United Way's Day of Action, volunteers will gather Saturday morning to frame in a new HEALS medical clinic at Madison Cross Roads Elementary School.

HEALS, which stands for Health Establishments at Local Schools, provides free medical and dental care, mental health counseling and social services to low-income children at Martin Luther King Jr., Morris and University Place elementary schools.

The new pediatric clinic at Madison Cross Roads will share a ranch-style house on the campus with the nonprofit Huntsville Assistance Program, which provides food and other basic needs.

Fifty-four percent of the school's 1,100 students live below the poverty line.

Volunteers will frame in the house's carport for the clinic. Future plans call for transforming a portable building formerly used by the school's custodians into a dental clinic.

Saturday's "Framing Party" starts at 9 a.m. The school is located at 11548 Pulaski Pike in Toney.